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| Helen Browning |
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HELEN BROWNING
"After graduating from Harper Adams Agricultural College in 1986, I took over the tenancy of Eastbrook Farm from my father and began the conversion to organic farming. I started Eastbrook Farms Organic Meat in the late 1980s and opened the farm shop in the nearby village of Shrivenham. Since then the business has grown and our organic meat is now available to customers through a nation-wide home delivery service and via supermarkets.
I was appointed as Food & Farming Director at the Soil Association last year. I also sit on a number of committees such as the Food Ethics Council and am a Meat and Livestock Commissioner.
I have worked with many food and farming organisations over the last twenty years, and was a member of the Government’s Policy Commission on the Future of Farming and Food (‘the Curry Commission’). There's nothing I like more than a tough game of squash to unwind"
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| Tim Finney |
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TIM FINNEY: Managing Director Eastbrook Farms Organic Meat
"I didn’t know a sheep from a pig, even after I left Aberdeen University with a degree in Agricultural Economics in 1979. Brief spell with BBC Radio Scotland presenting their early morning farming programmes, but after a long lie in one day, ended up drilling for oil in the North Sea. Four years at Big Farm Weekly and Farmers Weekly, then back to BBC Radio as presenter and producer of Farming Today. Ended up as editor of Radio 4 and 5 Live Farming and environment programmes, left on sabbatical end ’94 to help develop Helen Browning’s Eastbrook Farms Organic Meat (EFOM) business. Now in charge of EFOM Ltd. The busines is aimed at development of high quality fresh and added value organic meat cuts and products, with heavy emphasis on Helen Browning branding. It’s been a steep learning curve."
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BARBARA RAYNER: Marketing Manager
"I joined Helen Browning eight years ago for a quiet life in the country. Instead I work with a fantasticly motivated team running the public relations and marketing programme and making sure the branding happens in the form of our wonderful bold orange pig. I know what I would prefer - the latter, of course." |
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| Henry Stoye |
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HENRY STOYE Eastbrook Farm Arable Manager
"I'm what you call the Eastbrook Farm arable manager - deciding what crops to grow on our 1300 acres and working from 5 in the morning 'til 11 at night during the crucial harvest time. But really I do everything including making sure the machinery is properly maintained. And if anyone's car breaks down on a country lane, I've been known to rescue them so that they can get to the pub in time for last orders!"
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ROY HILL
"I've been at Eastbrook for almost twenty years and am the Herdsman for Cuesbrook Dairy Herd. I've seen through the changes from traditional farming methods to organic farming with Helen Browning. My day begins with morning milking, I get up at quarter past five. Each cow produces over 7000 litres of milk per year and there're 120 cows in the herd. Work it out for yourself that's a fair drop of milk!"
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